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When the Health Center is built on Dunster Street and Cronin opens a new pub, it is sure to have one thing in common with the old one: the proprietor will be a candidate-in-good-standing for membership in the Men's Auxiliary of the W.C.T.U. Jim Cronin has never touched a drop, and probably never will. "When I was a boy they told me something in Latin about moderation. And I haven't been weaned from milk...
...will find Cambridge's own mecca for fanciers of Mandarin treats such as Moo Shi pork, and hot and sour Peking soup. A dish that particularly recommends itself is Joyce Chen special shrimp--a specialty of the house, of course, because it bears the name of the proprietor...
...story centers about Sidney, a fortyish widowered proprietor of a second-rate Miami Beach hotel, and his rather precocious 12-year-old son, Ally. Sid, who thinks Easy Street is just around the corner, needs $5300 to pay off debts and retain the hotel. So he phones his stupid but well-heeled brother Max in New York and drops a half-truth about Ally's poor health. Whereupon Max and wife Sophie fly down and want to take Ally home with them or marry Sid off to a wealthy young widow; but Sid prefers women's company without responsibility, particularly...
...credited with the feats of financial erring do was Earl Belle, 26, a baby-faced Pittsburgh sharpie currently residing scot-free in Rio de Janeiro. So slick was his pitch that only this spring he was interviewed by Mike Wallace as a wonder boy of finance, the proprietor of a budding empire worth, he claimed, something like $10 million. To Tough-Guy Wallace, Belle explained: "If you claw your way up" to success, you never have to ask anyone for anything. "It's a terrible feeling to have to call on anybody for help...
...irrigated Imperial Valley, an El Centre Cessna dealer reported that he had already sold four single-engined planes to farmers this year at prices from $8,999 to $15,000. A farm organization has put together $1,590 grand tours of Europe for its members this summer. Says the proprietor of Knoust's Party Shop in Phillipsburg. Mo. (pop. 170), noting that farmers are among his best customers for cocktail shakers, blenders and bar glasses: "The farmer around here is an urbane host. The cocktail before dinner is as much a part of his way of life...